o 41 what do you think atypical family is ike in your ee aac eee a garden? tives in? 2. Hew mary rors har typical home got? 3 How many chikren are there nthe typical fay? [i 4 Have they usualy gota pet? What are yal pets? azo ea 5 é 7 lives with? When do young people usually leave home? Do people oft Do wider families (aunts and uncles. orandnarents) ive near each other? b Write about Nick and Grace. here do old people usually live? rave away fom their home town? grandparents? Read and listen to the text. How is a typical British family different from one in your country? © How are Nick's and Grace's families different from John's? uN 6OY y E . 1 * = HAMlHles—= My name's John and I live in a typical British family. Wee live ina house with a garden, I’ in Bealevheath, a suburb of London. Our house has got three rooms downstairs ~ a living room, a dining room and a kitchen, Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a bathroom, We didn't live tn this hhouse when I was horn. We moved here when I was five years old, because my parents wanted a bigger garden, Four people live in our house ~ my parents, my older brother and me. Until wo Fu, but my older sister left home when she was twenty years go there were fi on Shel ives and works in London, but-shelshares's fst with twolfriends inv another part of the city. (It's good, because when she moved out, I yot her bedroom, so I don't share with my brother now!) There's one other member of the London: My dad ist up in Liverpool. They both moved to London after university to get jobs. So we don't see our aunts and uncles very often, because they all five a long way from Landon, My mum’ parents now live in Cornwall, {call chem Nana and Granddad, The moved to Cornwall when Granddad retired. They've got a small house by the sea My grandpa (my dad's dad) died a few years ago. Grandma (my dad's mum) lives in Bexleyheath, but she doesn't lie with us, She lives in an old people's home ‘So that’s my family. Of course, not all families are the same, Lisoree 18 common in ha step: parent and step-brothers and sisters, But we're a very typical British family Britain, s0'9 lot of children live in a single-parent family cain a Family